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@lunartech Highly recommend #kinesis #advantage2 #qd If you are a #qwerty typist you could use this as an opportunity to learn #dvorak as the QD version I mentioned has both. Also, consider getting the foot pedal with it :-) (single pedal advantage version only $39)
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Elon Musk is pushing the boundaries of AI + space tech — proposing an AI satellite factory on the Moon to build and launch advanced systems directly from lunar soil, cutting costs and scaling AI infrastructure beyond Earth’s limits 🌕🤖 #AI #aibase_ng #Nigeria #ElonMusk #SpaceX #xAI #LunarTech #AIinSpace Read more:
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Elon Musk is pushing the boundaries of AI + space tech — proposing an AI satellite factory on the Moon to build and launch advanced systems directly from lunar soil, cutting costs and scaling AI infrastructure beyond Earth’s limits 🌕🤖 #AI #aibase_ng #Nigeria #ElonMusk #SpaceX #xAI #LunarTech #AIinSpace Read more:
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Elon Musk is pushing the boundaries of AI + space tech — proposing an AI satellite factory on the Moon to build and launch advanced systems directly from lunar soil, cutting costs and scaling AI infrastructure beyond Earth’s limits 🌕🤖 #AI #aibase_ng #Nigeria #ElonMusk #SpaceX #xAI #LunarTech #AIinSpace Read more: https://aibase.ng/global-ai-updates/china-zhipu-unveils-glm-5-in-ai-race-with-deepseek/
https://aibase.ng/global-ai-updates/elon-musk-wants-to-build-an-ai-factory-on-the-moon/
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Elon Musk is pushing the boundaries of AI + space tech — proposing an AI satellite factory on the Moon to build and launch advanced systems directly from lunar soil, cutting costs and scaling AI infrastructure beyond Earth’s limits 🌕🤖 #AI #aibase_ng #Nigeria #ElonMusk #SpaceX #xAI #LunarTech #AIinSpace Read more:
https://aibase.ng/global-ai-updates/elon-musk-wants-to-build-an-ai-factory-on-the-moon/
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I have a #Zappi #EV charger and have had an #electrician put the CT sensor on reversed while doing some work (so it shows grid export as import and vice versa). Could I just unclip it and reverse it myself or should I leave it to the pros? (Will have to wait days for them to return) #help ⚡️
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16th of April is another #meetup of #010DEV hosted by @Lunatech. Talks: Amazing Mazes
by Erik Hooijmeijer and Vibe coding for fun and profit
by Martin van Amersfoorth. For more details: https://www.meetup.com/010dev/events/306533845/?eventOrigin=group_upcoming_events -
16th of April is another #meetup of #010DEV hosted by @Lunatech. Talks: Amazing Mazes
by Erik Hooijmeijer and Vibe coding for fun and profit
by Martin van Amersfoorth. For more details: https://www.meetup.com/010dev/events/306533845/?eventOrigin=group_upcoming_events -
16th of April is another #meetup of #010DEV hosted by @Lunatech. Talks: Amazing Mazes
by Erik Hooijmeijer and Vibe coding for fun and profit
by Martin van Amersfoorth. For more details: https://www.meetup.com/010dev/events/306533845/?eventOrigin=group_upcoming_events -
16th of April is another #meetup of #010DEV hosted by @Lunatech. Talks: Amazing Mazes
by Erik Hooijmeijer and Vibe coding for fun and profit
by Martin van Amersfoorth. For more details: https://www.meetup.com/010dev/events/306533845/?eventOrigin=group_upcoming_events -
16th of April is another #meetup of #010DEV hosted by @Lunatech. Talks: Amazing Mazes
by Erik Hooijmeijer and Vibe coding for fun and profit
by Martin van Amersfoorth. For more details: https://www.meetup.com/010dev/events/306533845/?eventOrigin=group_upcoming_events -
A write-along/TTRPG Playthrough stream!
We continue our story of Rune and Astraelis, the tea monk.
Join the play LIVE right NOW: https://youtube.com/live/yTRCH3C3aN8
#writingcommunity #indieauthor #writer #story #vancouver #indie #fiction #stream #livestream #litgames #amwriting #writeyourstory #emergingwriters #TTRPG #SoloTTRPG #DnD #5e #pathfinder #PF2e #dungeon #itchio #cozy #cozyvibes #LunarEchos #BeckyChambers #APsalmfortheWorldBuilt #Wanderhome #solarpunk
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A write-along/TTRPG Playthrough stream!
Rune bound back his wild hair with a vine, then rode on from the factory ruins—hopeful.
We play this Solarpunk hack of "Wanderhome" LIVE right NOW: https://youtube.com/live/eTBDHupT9Zc
#writingcommunity #indieauthor #writer #story #vancouver #indie #fiction #stream #livestream #litgames #amwriting #emergingwriters #writealong #TTRPG #SoloTTRPG #DnD #5e #pathfinder #PF2e #dungeon #itchio #cozy #cozyvibes #LunarEchos #BeckyChambers #Wanderhome #Solarpunk
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@DharmaDog Does anyone really believe #Trump will be able to serve even another four years without the dementia totally taking over? People are probably placing bets on whether he will still be able to speak clearly coherently by the time November rolls around. I can't believe he could effectively serve a second term, let alone a third.
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#TV Station Launches Multiple #4K Broadcasts OTA on #atsc 1.0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_94q9TCCDY
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If you have friends that still consider themselves to be #Christians, but are either tormented because they fear they may go to #hell, or are going around trying to convert other people because thery think those people will go to hell, you might want to send them this. And if they ask, "Why was I never taught this in church?", I would answer "that's a really good question, since all preachers that went to a decent #bible college or #seminary should have known all this, yet they continue to preach hell. I wonder what else they know that they aren't telling?"
Warning: If you are an #exchristian this MIGHT be a bit triggering, because the author still is hanging onto his #Christianity at this point, but once you start seeing how you've been lied to in #church ypu start to notice other things as well, and I suspect given enough time that might happen with him.
What the Hell: Finding Out “Hell” Isn’t in the Bible
https://medium.com/christianish/what-the-hell-finding-out-hell-isnt-in-the-bible-7028acb3ecee -
For those that were exposed to the "700 Club" and Pat Robertson back in the day, you may not have realized that he wasn't exactly a paragon of virtue. This article (and the film it references) were published before he died. Of course this sort of thing still goes on. Personally I would not ever trust any preacher, but especialliy not one that has a television show. Those charlatans are not in their business to serve a deity, they are in it to make money and to gain power and influence.
‘Mission Congo’ Alleges Pat Robertson Exploited Post-Genocide Rwandans For Diamonds
https://www.thedailybeast.com/mission-congo-alleges-pat-robertson-exploited-post-genocide-rwandans-for-diamonds#exploitation #exvangelical #christian #christianity #christians #fundie #scandal #religion #ReligiousTrauma #patrobertson
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I just came across this quite by accident. It is quite lengthy but informative. It could apply to #religion and #religious groups / #cults, #MultiLevelMarketing (#MLM) organizations, or nowadays to #politics and various #political groups, especially the #Christofascists and #ChristianNationalism and similar #falseChristianity groups that seem to be taking over the #GOP / #Republicans in the USA. Young people in particular need to be informed about the dangers of such groups, since they prey on the young, who don't have enough life experience to have been exposed to such groups and therefore have no idea what they are getting into until it's too late.
The 25 Signs you’re in a High-Control Group or Cult by Anastasia Somerville-Wong
https://secularliturgies.wordpress.com/2020/02/24/the-25-signs-youre-in-a-high-control-group-or-cult-by-anastasia-somerville-wong/ -
#Roku TV bricked until agreeing to new terms of service
https://lemmy.world/post/12657213
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@bloodravenlib The #SouthernBaptists are among the worst. When I was a small child my mother let an acquaintence take me to one of their evening services, mind you I had not asked to go but I guess she thought it would be good for me, and this was before I had even started kindergarten.
Well, the preacher gave what I guess is a typical Southern Baptist fire and brimstone sermon with a VERY graphic and horrifying description of #Hell and all the tortures that would be experienced there (all entirely made up, of course). I don't remember if there were any other small children there but I know it absolutely terrified me and I could not get out of that place fast enough. Cried all the way home, had nightmares for months, and I don't think my mother had anything to do with that church or that acquaintence ever again, but the damage had been done.
The kicker, of course is that even IF you believe the #Bible is more than just a book of fables, if you know anything about the original languages you know that there are three or four very different word with completely different meanings that were all translated into the single English word hell (this is one reason the #KingJamesBible only types hate other versions of the bible - some of them have the temerity to actually use different words in place of "Hell" that more closely match the original meanings of the words in the original languages). Anyway, human beings do not go to the fire-and-brimstone hell of the Southern Baptist theology (well, maybe Southern Baptists do, but not the rest of us 😆). There is a very dated (especially the cultural references, there are Coors trucks everywhere in the USA now!) and somewhat comical treatment of this at https://web.archive.org/web/20010516175107/http://www.godstruthfortoday.org/Library/priddy/ibi_4_2.htm - remember this was written by a Christian, but apparently one that wasn't afraid to expose one of the biggest lies taught by #fundamentalists. But the fear of Hell is one of the ways lying preachers exert control over the sheep, even if they terrify little kids (and probably a few adults) with their lies.
I imagine they don't like women pastors in part because many women would not be able to terrify little kids like that and still sleep at night! But despicable #UNholy men seem to have no problem doing that!
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Many of us understand that there is one side of the US political spectrum that has turned truly awful, but what a lot of people don't seem to understand is how that got that way and why they are so adament about their beliefs. Of course there are pragmatic reasons (people who are wealthy and in charge of things want to stay that way) but still it is truly astounding that so many people who are not among the category of "rich white men" will still cling to those who probably despise them, or if not them then people they know and maybe even love. There is a person I know who is employed at a public agency and his direct boss is probably the biggest Trump supporter in the building - oh, and she also happens to be a lesbian. How does that make any sense at all, given what Trump and his followers have said they want to do to #lbgtq people?
Well, a big part of it is religion, and in particular the Christian religion. So many of those people have somehow been convinced that to oppose Trump would be to oppose "God's annointed" even though it is obvious to most of us on the outside of their bubble that Trump is not a God-fearing man, and would probably be among the first to have Jesus shot to death if he ever came back.
But step back a bit - where did this idea of just unconditionally obeying a "man of god" come from in the first place? Well, that is certainly nothing new, after all the early church required its followers to obey the Pope and all the bishops and cardinals and priests and so on. But where did that ever come from? After all, Jesus for the most part condemned organized religion, especially the scribes and the Pharisees of his day, according to the Bible.
So where did #Christianity go off the rails? Well, for years I have been saying that it's because Christians, and especially modern #evangelicals, stopped following the teachings of Jesus a long time ago. Sure, they pay lip service to him and pray to him, but for the most part they follow the instructions found in the writings of the "apostle" Paul. And that is a real problem, because Paul was probably just as deluded ans any guy who's ever started his own cult or sect that is loosely based on Christianity. There are many cults that use the Bible AND other writings (but mostly the "other" writings) as the basis of their religion, the only difference is that the extra writings of Paul (and possibly others who used his name) got included in Biblical canon by the early church. But that doesn't mean they are writings that Jesus would have in any way approved of. In fact, there are cases where Paul's writings directly contradict the teachings of Jesus. Here's a good video on the topic:
7 Times Paul Contradicted Jesus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNDsaPoeuzkWhy is this important? Because most of the hate you see coming from the so-called "religious right" is not a part of their religion if you leave out Paul (and also the old testament, but that's another discussion). I have said before, they seem to love conspiracy theories, and you could make a great conspiracy theory that the early church included Paul's writings in the Bible even though they knew he was a "false christ" because if you wanted to control the masses and make them subserviant to the church hierarchy, teaching only the words of Jesus simply would not do. But if you wanted to replace the Christian religion with something that was in many ways the polar opposite of what Jesus taught, then Paul was your guy. And that is as true today as it was hundreds of years ago, and it is the reason so many Christians are deluded about who God has chosen to lead them (and yes, I realize they are to some degree deluded because they want to be, because the delusion reinforces their prejudices and their hatred of those who are not like them). But when they try to stand on their religion as justification for what they believe or do, maybe it is worth asking which religion they are talking about, the one taught by Jesus or the probably totally fabricated version made up by Paul?
EDIT: Here's one more (this reminds me of some dishonest preachers):
The Dishonest Apostle | Was Paul Caught in a Lie?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wGNsRCiTTY#biblecontradictions #deconstructionism #exvangelical #counterapologetics #USpol #ReligiousTrauma #ptsd #ChristianNationalism #Christofascism #deconstructing #evangelicalism #postchristian #postchristianity #exchristian #EmptyThePews #exvie #AbuseCulture #politics #mysogyny #homophobia #racism
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Observations about using #AI to help you write code - I am not a programmer, and I am old and my memory isn't what it used to be (and honestly it was never great - whatever the opposite of a photographic memory is, that's about what I have). But, on rare occasions I need a short program to do some specific task. #Python (specifically #python3 ) seems to be what everyone uses these days, but I never learned Python - the only languages I ever even partially learned were BASIC and Z-80 assembly language (that should tell you about how old I am!).
So in days past if I needed a short program I'd either try to write it as a #bash script (which is a little bit similar to BASIC) or if I felt I had to do it in Python, it would take me hours because I'd literally need to do multiple web searches to figure out the correct Python code for each step, and none of my code was really efficient because I don't know nor understand any of the advanced features of Python (what the hell's a "tuple", anyway?!). And also, Python is kind of a miserable language to work with because it is so picky about things like indentation and syntax. I realize if you write a lot of Python code you can use an #IDE to help you with things like that, but for the two or three times a year I need a script to do something, the learning curve for the IDE would be more effort than it's worth.
But now we have AI, and I find that trying to use it to help write code can be a very, um, interesting experience. For one thing, unlike some web sites which shall remain nameless, it never makes you feel like an idiot or chides you for not having searched hard enough before you asked a question, unlike some of the bullies and a-holes that inhabit those "question and answer" sites.
And AI is great for people like me who have lousy memories, because it remembers the basics of a language, and also a lot of the little tricks that can help make your code more efficient. It suggests things I would have never known nor remembered. It also comments much of the code it creates, so you can actually understand what it is doing (and you can ask it to explain why it used certain statements, so it really is kind of a learning experience).
But at the same time it makes really dumb mistakes, such as mis-matching parenthesis (a no-no in any language). Sometimes the mistakes are obvious, in other cases if you tell it what the problem was (the error message you received, or why the result was not as expected) it will fix the error, though that may take a few tries (and it may even repeat previously given incorrect code, which is frustrating). But what I find interesting is that it often gets the hard parts right, but totally fumbles the easy stuff.
But here are my questions: If you find an obvious error, and you tell the AI about it, does it learn from its mistake, or will is spit out the same bad code to the next person who gives it similar input? And also, is there a particular #aimodel that is great for generating code (especially Python code)?
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@daveunderwood True, and I don't think a lot of people realize that certain things can trigger a PTSD response, like being accosted by a preacher or other fundamentalist religious type, or even hearing certain hymns/religious songs. #Evangelicalism #PostChristian #PostChristianity #Exvangelical #ExChristian #EmptyThePews
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@CultureDesk There are different types of self-checkouts. If you want to see self-checkouts done right, visit a #Meijer store in the midwestern Great Lakes area of the United States. Many other stores do them wrong, for example #Aldi (#aldius) which has self checkouts that neither accept cash nor the store's own gift cards. Also if a store is notorious for pricing errors (prices changed don't match prces in the store ad or the store's shelf tags) it may affect how willing customers are to use a self checkout (it is easier to spot errors when using a self-checkout because you can easily observe the price you are being charged for each item, but if you do find an error it is usually easier to get it corrected by a human clerk).
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@AAKL @BBC If customers hate self checkouts then the store isn't doing them right. As a customer I love self checkouts because then I know that an underpaid clerk is not scanning my itmes twice, and I have time to look at the prices being charged to see if the price at the scanner matches the price in the ad or on the shelf tag. In fact that is the biggest failure I have seen, where the scanner isn't pricing the item correctly, but that would also happen at a human-run register because the prices all come from the same database. And where I live, if there is a scanning error and you are overcharged and you have already completed the transaction and paid, then the store has to pay you a bonus of ten times the difference in the price (between what you were charged and what the price should have been) plus $5. So it it potentially saves the store a LOT of money if customers can see what they are being charged before they complete the transaction, and can get assistance to correct the error.
And sure, in theory you can call an error to the attention of a human cashier, and that's a possibility if you only have a couple of items, but if you have a shopping cart (or trolley as they say in the U.K.) full, an experienced cashier often scans the items so fast you just can't follow along (plus you are often still trying to unload the cart when the clerk begins scanning your order). So all you can do is check your receipt for errors, but now you have to make a trip to the service desk and wait in line there to get an adjustment, and meanwhile all your frozen and refrigerated items are getting warm.
But if I am doing the scanning, I can see the price for each item and if I want to scan my items in a particular order I can do that too. If I don't want my bread or eggs or bananas smashed I can make sure that doesn't happen. If I have to weigh something, I can make sure that a part of the previous customer's order isn't sitting on the scale (that actually happened to me in a human-run checkout line once, and the clerk was totally unapologetic).
And I don't have to try and make small talk, which I hate. Some people may want that, but I don't. I just want to pay for my purchases and get out.
Most of the time the self-scanners at the stores I shop at work great and I really wish all the stores had them. The one store that pisses me off is #Aldi (#aldius); they recently installed a bunch of self-scanners but their scanners neither take cash nor the store's gift cards. So if you want to pay cash for your purchases, you need to use a human-run register and usually there are only one or two of those open, and their cashiers scan items REALLY fast, which is great for people in a hurry but not for people who want to see how each item is being rung up. A store that does self-checkouts right is #Meijer; theirs accept cash and give change and hardly ever make mistakes, and they have so many that even if one or two are out of service it usually doesn't cause a backup - I can't even think of a time I had to wait more than a minute or two since those were installed, except for one day in the middle of the holiday rush where I think I had to wait three or four minutes.
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@Bot4Sale Thanks for the suggestion about #OpenInterpreter - I will check that out but just at first glance what I see at https://openinterpreter.com/ looks VERY interesting! #AI
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@lonseidman did you see this one? Note the fourth comment under the article, "The paradigm shift is that prior to ATSC 3.0 broadcast companies couldn’t tell device manufacturers what to do. Now they can because playing DRM protected content requires a private contract between the A3SA and the device manufacturers. We aren’t even allowed to publicly share what is in that contract."
ATSC 3.0 Advocate Throws In The Towel
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@starlily @c0nac @thelinuxexperiment Only if you are a #Linux geek that 1) knows it's POSSIBLE to do those things, and 2) knows HOW to do them.
The problem with excluding or pinning a package is that often you don't know you should have done that until the new version (that breaks things) gets installed during a normal update run. And then it's too late. That was certainly the case with #lirc, the old version worked great and then one day the new version got install during a normal apt update/upgrade run and suddenly buttons on infrared remotes stopped working as they should. It went from "working great" to "dumpster fire" with one update, but of course no one knew that update was coming so no one bothered to exclude or pin it. Fortunately people started finding ways to install the old version (on #Ubuntu / #Debian based systems) and how to pin that old version once installed, but then you still have the problem that if your hard drive goes kaput or you do a clean install to a new version of the OS you won't have that pinned or excluded package anymore, so you have to hope the process for installing the old version still works. Whereas with something that installs from a Windows .exe file or a MacOS .dmg file or similar, you might have taken the two seconds necessary to save it to an external drive just in case a future version was totally screwed up (and even if you didn't, someone else on the Internet probably did).
This is just another case where Linux people want to pretend they have equivalent (or even better) functionality, or "flexibility" as you call it, without taking into account that people won't do something if it is significantly more difficult than on those other systems. There is still a significant number of #Linux devotees that seem to thing that harder is good, or at least that it's okay, and that's probably a big reason why #MacOS in particular continues to hold onto such a big market share. A primary goal of #Apple (at least while Steve Jobs was still alive) was to make things as easy as possible for users, and doing that is a big reason they could charge the "Apple tax". Meanwhile Linux types were like "It's perfectly fine if things are hard and you have to spend hours trying to make something work that would take you five minutes in Windows - Linux is supposed to be a challenge and a puzzle, that's how you 'learn' Linux." But the vast majority of computer users don't WANT to "learn" an operating system, they just want the damned thing to work with the least amount of pain!
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@starlily @c0nac @thelinuxexperiment Only if you are a #Linux geek that 1) knows it's POSSIBLE to do those things, and 2) knows HOW to do them.
The problem with excluding or pinning a package is that often you don't know you should have done that until the new version (that breaks things) gets installed during a normal update run. And then it's too late. That was certainly the case with #lirc, the old version worked great and then one day the new version got install during a normal apt update/upgrade run and suddenly buttons on infrared remotes stopped working as they should. It went from "working great" to "dumpster fire" with one update, but of course no one knew that update was coming so no one bothered to exclude or pin it. Fortunately people started finding ways to install the old version (on #Ubuntu / #Debian based systems) and how to pin that old version once installed, but then you still have the problem that if your hard drive goes kaput or you do a clean install to a new version of the OS you won't have that pinned or excluded package anymore, so you have to hope the process for installing the old version still works. Whereas with something that installs from a Windows .exe file or a MacOS .dmg file or similar, you might have taken the two seconds necessary to save it to an external drive just in case a future version was totally screwed up (and even if you didn't, someone else on the Internet probably did).
This is just another case where Linux people want to pretend they have equivalent (or even better) functionality, or "flexibility" as you call it, without taking into account that people won't do something if it is significantly more difficult than on those other systems. There is still a significant number of #Linux devotees that seem to thing that harder is good, or at least that it's okay, and that's probably a big reason why #MacOS in particular continues to hold onto such a big market share. A primary goal of #Apple (at least while Steve Jobs was still alive) was to make things as easy as possible for users, and doing that is a big reason they could charge the "Apple tax". Meanwhile Linux types were like "It's perfectly fine if things are hard and you have to spend hours trying to make something work that would take you five minutes in Windows - Linux is supposed to be a challenge and a puzzle, that's how you 'learn' Linux." But the vast majority of computer users don't WANT to "learn" an operating system, they just want the damned thing to work with the least amount of pain!